| One should really use the camera as though | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| - Dorothea Lange | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | communicate more powerfully than either |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | world about you, and trust to your own |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Adams | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Ansel Adams |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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